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Coherent Nuclear Diffractive Production of Minijets - Illuminating Color Transparency

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The cross section for coherent nuclear processes in which an incident meson or photon dissociates diffractively into two jets of high relative transverse momentum (between about 1 and 3 GeV/c) is found to be proportional in QCD to A2A^2 in a wide kinematical region. The leading correction to this is a significant positive term A7/3\propto A^{7/3} caused by nuclear multiple-scattering. We find also that shadowing of hard diffractive processes reappears as a leading twist effect in the TeV energy range.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9305228,
  title  = {Coherent Nuclear Diffractive Production of Minijets - Illuminating Color Transparency},
  author = {L. Frankfurt and G. A. Miller and M. Strikman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9305228},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Report number DOE/ER/40427-01-N93 14 pages, 4 figures available from author Miller or see the slightly shorter version published as Phys. Lett. B304, 1 (1993)